Yesterday I worked out on a Map My Route (Spark People's) how far 5k is, on my usual route, and on another going in the opposite direction. I'm nowhere near it yet, but it's good to have a definite end to aim for. I did w8r2 yesterday and also plotted that, and I'm at about 3.62k, in 29 minutes, so I'm not sure what has to happen during week 9, but I can't see me doing 5k yet! Still, I would never have believed back in September tha I would be running for 28 minutes non stop, so who knows

Basically, yes. If that's what you decide as your goal. There are other plans available such as the Stepping Stones and C25K+ if you want to use those but I couldn't tell you what they're like as I haven't used them. Not long since graduated myself so I'm just working on consolidating time and distance. The general advice I've seen here seems to be to only add 10% to either time/distance when you do your increases so as to avoid injury. Happy running and looking forward to seeing you graduate

I graduated in August, I'd love to be able to do 5K in 30 mins! I've recently made a massive improvement down to 40 mins..sounds like you're doing just fine, and yes, to graduate you just need to do 3 x 30 min runs. I love the + podcasts personally, and there a re lots of other free plans you can download if you decide you want to follow a structured plan. Once you finish the course, the worlds your oyster!

Thanks, I'll look into the other plans once I've done the 5k thing. I'm definitely hooked, only terrible weather or illness/injury stops me now! (actually, even the weather hasn't, so far, but I'm not sure about running on snow)